We’ll she isn’t my baby-baby…she is the middle child and she is my only daughter. Zavia just celebrated a birthday…she is growing so fast and becoming quiet the lil lady…for her birthday we spent a day at the spa and she loved the pampering.

and in honor of her birthday…today’s give away contest will be to guess Zavia’s age.So send me an email with the title “Zavia” and your guess on her age. The first person to guess her correct age wins!!

I am having so much fun giving away all these goodies…it’ sbeen a fun week.

The Rules: Only one guess per person. You have to come to the studio to pick up your goodies if you are a winner. The only way the item will be shipped is if you are a current Phreckles Photography client that lives more then 40 miles from our Raleigh studio. A current client means someone that I have completed a session with.

The prize:This awesome raspberry knit romper ( size 6 months )with tiny white mary janes…this outfit is so gorgeous and I am dying to photograph a lil girl in it so the winner will also receive a $50.00 gift card to our studio.

I love urban family sessions..by far my favorite type of family session to shoot. This is part two from Shannel’s senior post, Sandy wanted some family images before I got into shooting Shannel’s senior sessions…loved these images!

Had a blast shooting them!!

New Give away

Have you seen these booksby Tara Gomi? My kids love them and they are so fun. We have the entire line of these books. I decided to gift my favorite one in the set, a set of colored pencils for tiny hands and a cool pencil pouch ( my daughter really wants that pencil pouch ) for our give-away today.

How do you win?

Email me at Marie@phrecklesphotography.com and  put Book in the subject line and I will pick a random winner later this evening and email you this evening.

The rules are still the same and listed in this past week’s give away post’s. 

I found this company while looking through Cookie Mag a few months back…I loved that they offered an organic alternative for skin care for baby and mom. I wish I had known about this line when I was last pregnant.

Since I have so many maternity sessions coming up, I decided that I wanted to offer a gift set for some lucky mom…the milk bath is awesome and I heard the stretch mark cream works wonders…

Winner from Monday: Lauren F ( email me and let me know if you are coming to pick it up or if you want it shipped)

Today’s contest: Be the first person to email me with the correct number of kids that I have and it’s all yours

Rules: Only one guess!

You have to come to the studio to pick up your goodies if you are a winner. The only way the item will be shipped is if you are a current Phreckles Photography client that lives more then 40 miles from our Raleigh studio. A current client means someone that I have completed a session with.

So a few months ago I was thinking it would be pretty fun to celebrate our studio anniversary right here on my blog. It was a really big move for me to move from a home business to the studio, but it has been so worth it. I love my space and I am actually on the look out for a bigger store front now so if any of you know of a space in downtown Raleigh…let me know.

This entire week I will be giving way some awesome gifts from some of my favorite places…you have to win them, but hopefully it’s fun in the process.

The rules: You have to come to the studio to pick up your goodies if you are a winner. The only way the item will be shipped is if you are a current Phreckles Photography client that lives more then 40 miles from our Raleigh studio. A current client means someone that I have completed a session with.

Today’s goodie??

A $50.00 gift card to my favorite kids store in the triangle: MOXIE KIDS!!

How do you win it?

Be the first person to email me what my favorite color is and it’s all yours. Hint: My favorite color is on my website in some form or fashion

If you email me with numerous colors…your email will not count..only one guess per person.

I have to share some cool images of moxie kids while I am at it…it’s such a cool store and if you haven’t been…you gotta go…

and of course…some Phreckles Images..

I got sooo lost traveling to the photo session for this tiny peanut…Thankfully she made it worth it…so good to me!

she was really good at doing the pirate look with one eye

Love the light in this shot

and one more…

James is so darn cute and I have loved watching him grow…he is my second client to move to NY this month. Hopefully I will see him again at one of our travel sessions.

Here are a few favorites..

His lashes are killer

and grandma sent this outfit all the way from Ireland

Now last night as I was happily editing at my desk….my phone rings and the conversation goes something like this:

ME: Pheckles Photography, Marie speaking
Caller: Hi Marie, It’s Sandy
Me: ( in my head, I know why she is calling ) How are you?
Sandy: ( she laughs a little) We are calling to put more duress on you
Me: I laugh…Wow, Shannel really wants to see her pictures huh?
Sandy: She has been bugging me everyday when we go to check your blog
Marie: Tell her they came out great, but I promise I will post some in the morning
Sandy: ( She whispers to Shannell, she will post them tomorrow…she promises) Ok, Marie…Thank you!
Marie: No problem…

So now my friend Heather has started a mutiny within my clients and they all want to see their pictures…lol

Shannel drove all the way from Rock Hill, SC for me to do her senior images so I had a lot of pressure on me to rock this session. It was easy for me…because she is stunning…although she couldn’t stop laughing the entire shoot..I had to pull out all my lil tricks to get some serious expressions ( right Shannel?) I also got some great family shots before we started the senior sessions and I will share those in the next day or so as well.

Some of my favorites…

and I actually had to “make” Shannel jump like this..I told her we were not leaving until she did

I hope you like Shannel…now I must get back to editing so I can finish all the rest of your images…congrats on your senior year!

I do have cute kids to post, but just not today

Blog Celebration ( starts on Monday)

Today I wanted to give a shot out to all my blog readers and remind you that we will be having a blog celebration all next week to celebrate my one year studio anniversary in North Carolina…so everyday I will be giving away some of my favorite things for kids and mom’s…so fun and I can’t wait! So make sure to stay tuned all week starting on Monday for your chance to win cool stuff.

Decorating with your portraits…

I decided that every so often, I am going to share with you all how I display my prints in my home. I love it when clients purchase large wall portraits to display in their home, but I sometimes get clients who are unsure of what to purchase, how to hang their prints, afraid of going to large ( no such thing ) and so every month I will take a picture of a display that I have and share the dimensions to give you all ideas on what to do with the portraits you purchase from your session.

Foyer

This is in my hallway as soon as you walk in..I have to 20×20 prints framed very simply. These prints are really 12×12 on a 20×20 digital mat with the date the photo was taken in small print under each print. I love these two photos.

Living room wall

This is one wall in my living room. 3 11×14 frames with a good amount of digital matting. Each print has my child’s name and age is small script right below each print…that way when I switch them out and store them, I will always remember how old they were in the photographs.

and a close up shot…

I will share more images next month…My kitchen is large and sunny and has a ton of prints up…can’t wait to show you.

Heather has nicely warned me that if I don’t post atleast one picture from her fabulous maternity session, that she will turn into a stalker and sit outside my studio peeking in at me through the windows. Now, that is something that worries me a bit as I am afraid she would scare off my lil clients and so folks…introducing Heather ( who makes people) and her soon to be here lil guy..I can’t wait to meet him.